regulation
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Ofcom referred the £7.5 billion UK cloud market to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for investigation in October 2023, citing several concerns around competition. -
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started a detailed Phase 2 investigation looking into Vodafone UK’s joint venture agreement with Three UK.
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Turkey’s national regulator, the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) is reportedly planning to implement bandwidth restrictions on Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).
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The European Commission has published its latest whitepaper on digital infrastructure outlining its route to creating the digital networks of the future.
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Laws regulating subsea cables have largely remained unchanged for over the past 100 years, but why?
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Thierry Breton, the internal market commissioner of the European Commission is pushing for a single telecoms market in a move that he believes will foster growth and innovation and allow operators to adapt to rapidly evolving technology.
Forthcoming events
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The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on Vodafone’s merger with rival network Three.
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Carriers carrying IP voice calls into the US from outside now have to authenticate those calls before delivering them, or face fines of thousands of dollars per call.
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The US telecoms regulator is likely to be stuck in a two-two voting tie for months or years following the withdrawal of a Democratic-supporting candidate.
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A decision from EU antitrust regulators on the US$7.3 billion merger between Viasat and Inmarsat is expected today.
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The US regulator has imposed fines worth almost US$1 million on a dozen small phone companies that are not sending the right numbering information to a database.
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Data centres will experience increased regulation and third-party oversight in 2023 as the world grapples with rising energy and water consumption, global data centre experts at Vertiv believe.
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US regulator the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has signed an MoU with the regulator of Georgia, the Georgian National Communications Commission, "concerning bilateral cooperation in telecommunications and media policy".
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Public hearings are underway in South Africa today as the regulator garners industry feedback on its call termination regulations implemented in 2014.
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Senegal’s telecoms regulator has fined operators a total of almost US$35 million for quality of service – though they are contesting the decisions.
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Fourteen months and more than $6 billion later, TracFone Wireless is now part of Verizon.
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The European Union has imposed tariffs on fibre cables imported from China in a bid to tackle artificially low prices.
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The focus of ongoing anti-competition investigations in Europe could be about to make the inevitable shift to cloud services.
